From Bloomberg: Richard Williamson, who oversaw the mapping team, was fired by Senior Vice President Eddy Cue, said the people, who asked not to be named because the information wasn’t yet public. Cue, who took over last month as part of a management shakeup, is seeking advice from outside mapping-technology experts and prodding digital maps provider TomTom NV to fix landmark and navigation data it shares with Apple. (read more)

While sales of the iPhone 5 have been strong (despite supply issues) the fumbled launch has been called out of character for Apple, a departure from the tightly controlled launches under late CEO Steve Jobs.